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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Uganda	Romania	Turkmenistan
Dec 31, 1999	23,408	22,414	4,324
Dec 31, 2000	24,195	22,262	4,385
Dec 31, 2001	24,992	22,106	4,444
Dec 31, 2002	25,846	21,931	4,502
Dec 31, 2003	26,661	21,828	4,556
Dec 31, 2004	27,414	21,704	4,608
Dec 31, 2005	28,200	21,571	4,664
Dec 31, 2006	29,021	21,443	4,719
Dec 31, 2007	29,846	21,129	4,773
Dec 31, 2008	30,647	20,779	4,828
Dec 31, 2009	31,469	20,607	4,884
Dec 31, 2010	32,343	20,485	4,940
Dec 31, 2011	33,257	20,385	4,996
Dec 31, 2012	34,234	20,296	5,053
Dec 31, 2013	35,271	20,224	5,110
Dec 31, 2014	36,419	20,151	5,169
Dec 31, 2015	37,673	20,055	5,227
Dec 31, 2016	39,157	19,938	5,287
Dec 31, 2017	40,879	19,823	5,346
Dec 31, 2018	42,329	19,713	5,405
Dec 31, 2019	43,639	19,622	5,464
Dec 31, 2020	45,120	19,496	5,522
Dec 31, 2021	46,645	19,351	5,579
Dec 31, 2022	48,065	19,266	5,657

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.